Head Tesla Ilon Mask sold more than 934 thousand shares, its capital per day decreased by 5.42 percent. The businessman had a 15.1 billion dollars, writes Bloomberg.
Package shares cost about $ 963 million. Thus, Mask sold 11 million shares since in November he asked his subscribers to Twitter, whether he should get rid of one tenth lobe in Tesla. To achieve ten percent, which is 17 million securities, he needs to sell six more shares.
Securities fell 18 percent from November 4. Mask remains the richest man in the world with a state of 266 billion dollars, which only this year increased by $ 110 billion.
Businessman began selling after a survey in Twitter, in which he called on subscribers to decide whether he should sell ten percent of Tesla shares. According to the results of the voting, in which more than three and a half million people took part, the majority made for sale.
The survey was preceded by the proposal of the Democratic Democrat Ron Wyden obliges the richest Americans to pay a tax of 23.8 percent with the increase in shares. Mask criticized the initiative and stated that it would be able to pay taxes only in the case of the sale of shares, since it is its only source of income.